Gladstone

Actually it's already 0-0 going on 20 for Brazil. Good choice.

Am I making a mistake watching the Brazil game instead of the 2nd place decider?

We didn't bother trying until the final 10 minutes. No point tiring ourselves out. Save it for later in the tournament when it really matters.

Through after 2 games without breaking sweat. The stuff of champions.

You're all missing the real story here.

'GLADSTONE IN CORRECT PREDICTION SHOCKER'

I never knew that. It's just a list of when things are happening. I would't have even considered such a thing could be copyrighted.

 

Their team of lawyers are clearly not very heavy handed with it, as fixture lists are currently being posted everywhere, by naughty boys, raising awareness of when football matches are. SEND THEM TO JAIL.

National Service, obviously.

I think Chile are going to win tonight.  Spain - OUT.

I can't believe I like Gary Neville.

Go on then.

Jonathan Pearce still going on about how "they got it horribly wrong" the other night.

No Jonathan. They didn't. You did.

Someone needs to sit him down and explain to him. After sedating him, obviously.

Lucky Rathen and his soft skills.

At the risk of getting shot down for knowing fuck all about football, is Fred really the best centre forward Brazil can offer? He looks ordinary. Very ordinary.

As expected we fucking smashed Algeria. 2-1 going on 20-1.

(I didn't see the game - fucking work)

Have we done the Boyd to the Dons discussion?  McInnes has spoken to him and Boyd is considering his options.  What does everyone think?  Would him and Rooney work well together or would it be competition for one place?  I think it would be a cracking signing - he's always scored for fun in Scotland.  Whether the system could fit both strikers into the starting line up, I'm not sure.

Rooney and Boyd must have two of the best scoring records in the SPL of the past 10-15 years in terms of goals to games.  (not including the megabucks Old Firm strikers, obviously)

Was very much the sort of 'plucky defeat in a Quarter Final' type of performance from England last night (I know it wasn't a QF but it easily could have been). Still, that's an improvement on the abject showings of the past couple of major tournaments and the difference between last night and two years ago against Italy was night and day. I thought it was a pretty high quality game - probably the best of the tournament so far in terms of the quality of play from both teams. I know a lot of people are on Rooney's case but, whilst he did have some good moments in the game, I'm not really sure he's the best English player in any of the positions he's likely to play in these days.

That's exactly it with Rooney. You'd rather have Sturridge up top and rather have Sterling at number 10. Wellbeck was more effective than Rooney on the left and right because of his ball winning and you've got Barkley who looked far hungrier than Rooney when he came on.

Rooney should be benched and used as a sub. Tell him to go and prove he's good enough. Nobody should be playing on reputation. The young guys look far more up for it. Rooney doesn't look massively interested.

That free kick deserved a goal. Made a cunt of Hart.

Good game that. Overall, England were quite good. The disappointing thing I would say is that Hodgson keeps trying to accommodate Rooney. He played one great cross for the goal but aside from that he looked off the pace. Pick the best player for each position. He wasn't interested in doing the defensive job so they shuffled things about and then took fucking Wellbeck off who was hustling all the time and winning the ball. Then he pushed Sterling out wide to keep Rooney on. Once he went out wide he wasn't as effective.

I think Rooney needs dropped.

Yas min.

I'm 99% sure Rio just called Rooney 'Wazza'.

Woods - I thought that Sterling shot was in too as did the person in charge of the scoreboard in the top left corner.

Shame - that would have been an incredible intro for Sterling.

I predicted an England win but they need to plug that gap down the left or they'll lose another goal.

Here's another Little Kicks acoustic thingy:

http://glasgow.stv.tv/120435/

Steven Milne was on the new STV Glasgow channel the other night playing on the "Riverside Show" - I missed it when it was on, but here's the clip.

A picture of a knob:

That seems odd to me.  Are you talking about actual "running" shorts as in ones designed for running?  Reason I ask is that all of my pairs of running shorts have inner lining that is pretty good at holding everything fairly still.  I'd be much more comfortable with these than a pair of boxer shorts.

Shite. Of course he looks at him, they are both going to try and win a ball, but that doesnt mean he goes out to intentionally hurt him. The fact that Shearer says it was a red card just backs up the rest of us, no one knows less about football than Alan Shearer. 

 

The ref bottled the penalty, but not the red card. 

Bollocks.  I recognise that look and it's not just the look.  It's the look followed by what he did.  It's an intentional elbow in the face.

The part about Alan Shearer was just a joke.  But if anyone knows anything about intentionally elbowing someone in the face, then it's Alan Shearer.  The dirty cunt.

Gillhaus, Snelders and...

WILLEM VAN DER ARK

Back in the day when the Dons could sign top drawer players.

It was good to see Paul Bernard get a run out for Brazil last night.

Ace!

All you guys saying it wasn't a red.

Get to fuck out.  The fact that he had a definite look first before raising his arm to Modric's head height (his height makes no difference here because Neymar had a definite look first).  At first I thought he was just holding him off because he didn't swing the elbow at him, but when I saw the replay with that look first, then putting the elbow in.  Definite red.  Even Alan Shearer thought so.

The ref bottled it (along with the penalty decision) because it was Brazil at home in the first game of the World Cup.

Well done!!

An hour and half after eating would normally be easily long enough for me - in fact, probably ideal...  Straight after eating isn't great, but given time to settle etc. I'm probably at my best about 1.5-2 hours after eating! Depends what you're used to though I guess.